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Christiaan Dirk Tonnis (born June 5, 1956, Saarbrücken, Germany) is a German symbolist/realist painter, draftsman, video artist and published author. He studied at the HfG Offenbach with Dieter Lincke and Herbert Heckmann(de), and lives in Frankfurt, Germany. ==Work== Tonnis’ works are "supported with psychological knowledge"〔Hoffmann, Kai, "Hübsches Frauengesicht als Flickwerk", ''Frankfurter Rundschau'', 1986-02-20〕 His earliest drawings reflect his interest in psychoanalysis and psychopathology such as, catatonic rigidity or the postnatal psychosis depicted in his 1980–85 collection. To "show the psychic as a second face" he "uses stitchings, masks and fragments of masks—they are sometimes barely visible"〔"The Face behind the Countenance", ''Gießener Allgemeine Zeitung'', 1986-10-20〕 In 1986, he started to paint landscapes from literature like the "Magic Mountain (after Thomas Mann)" and portraits of writers and philosophers as William S. Burroughs, Arthur Rimbaud, Virginia Woolf, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and more. His large scale triptych "Frost" is "a material image in harsh black and white which depicts a literary landscape of snow and ice in different viewpoints () a picturesque transformation of Thomas Bernhards 1963 novel".〔("Christiaan Tonnis: Thomas Bernhards ''Frost''" ), ''kunstaspekte.de'', 2011-08-12〕 Since 2003 his work has become more meditative: "Geometric patterns in bright colors",〔"First Vernissage at 'Höpershof'", ''Wedemark Echo'', 2006-11-11〕 consistent with Tibetan Book of the Dead (Bardo Thodol) and New Testament—the series of minimalistic "Meditation pictures". "Catwalk!" was exhibited at the Showroom Eulengasse in Frankfurt, Germany in 2007. The exhibition consisted of a series of collages created of cats' heads on women's bodies. The most recognizable bodies are those of Virginia Woolf "with big, sad eyes" and Kate Moss.〔Frick, Solveig, "Don´t be afraid of Virginia Woolf", ''Frankfurter Rundschau'', No. 86, Page 31, 2007-04-13〕 In 2006 Tonnis set up a MySpace page dedicated to Thomas Bernhard, using pictures tell his biography. The theme of the page was Bernhard's motto "In the darkness everything becomes clear." In 2008 Tonnis started to contribute reviews on art to the style magazine Dazed Digital, London.〔("Contributors", ''Dazed Digital'', Dazed & Confused Magazine )〕 2009: During the "Sommeratelier" at Kunstverein Familie Montez, Frankfurt,〔Schütte, Christoph, "Kunst mit Familienanschluss", ''Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung'', R4 Kultur, 2009-06-21〕 he created a painting for the performance "Who let the dogs out, Edith?". This "experimental collage of different media and arts" has been a dialogue with Heinrich von Kleist's play Penthesilea, directed by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg in 1988 with actress Edith Clever. With the mural of a golden cross on black and violet ground—divided into pixels—Tonnis has been one of 36 international artists who designed the "Pixelkitchen" in January 2013, a tiled room of 177.2 inches height at the ''Günes Theatre'' in Frankfurt.〔Troschke, Antonia, "Menü mit Allem", ''Frankfurter Rundschau'', No. 20, RS/B7, 2013-01-24〕 "All these artworks are glued, painted or nailed onto the walls."〔Persson, Amelie, ("Pixelkitchen" ), ''schirn–magazin.de'', 2013-01-25〕 Tonnis' work is displayed in international publications to illustrate articles, essays, enzyklopedic entrys, etc.〔Warburton, Nigel, ("Ludwig Wittgenstein – Language Games" ), ''Yale University Press London'', 2013-04-26〕〔APA, ("Innsbrucker Mediziner wollen Schizophrenie auf den Grund gehen" ), ''WirtschaftsBlatt'', 2014-12-04〕〔Flores, Fabián Ramírez, ("En los límites de la personalidad" ), ''magis – ITESO Universidad Jesuita de Guadalajara'', 2010-01-18〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Christiaan Tonnis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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